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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1992, for how many prisoners had McMillian's team won relief in death penalty cases?
(a) 8.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

2. How much money did McMillian's wallet have in it when he picked it up after his charges were dismissed in Chapter 11?
(a) $45.
(b) $38.
(c) $17.
(d) $23.

3. In Chapter 12, where did Marsha Colbey and her husband go?
(a) Boston.
(b) Mobile.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

4. According to McCleskey v. Kemp, how many times more likely were offenders in Georgia likely to get the death penalty if the victim was white?
(a) 22.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 5.

5. How many children did Walter Garnett have?
(a) 7.
(b) 12.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the police office who was first on the scene where Morrison was killed?

2. What did Myers want to drink when Stevenson and O'Connor spoke to him in Chapter 7?

3. In Chapter 11, how long had McMillian been on death row?

4. Who was the mechanic that modified McMillian's truck?

5. When did Gulley, McCants, and Sullivan break into a house in Pensacola, Florida?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was John Patterson?

2. In Chapter 11, why did Stevenson have to take bomb threats seriously?

3. Why did McMillian have to quit his logging business?

4. Why was it so difficult to get money for wrongful imprisonment?

5. What were conditions like at Tutwiler Prison?

6. Why did Stevenson's office in Atlanta sue Angola Prison?

7. What campaign was lead by Dorothea Dix and Reverend Louis Wright in the late nineteenth century?

8. What law was passed in Alabama in 2006 and what were its ramifications?

9. What was Bernard Harcourt's background?

10. Why was Trina Garnett arrested for?

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